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FSC supports longer threshold for unclaimed life insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... Loane has applauded the Treasury's decision to extend the unclaimed life insurance threshold back to seven years. Since 2012, bank accounts and life insurance policies could be inactive for three years before being transferred to the government as unclaimed ...

Advisers need to provide multi-pronged services

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... received limited advice doesn't appear to be lining up to what they were expecting. "If a person gets limited advice from their bank or super fund, then, given that they have an ongoing relationship with their bank/super fund, they expect the bank/super ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 5,880. In its post-meeting statement, the US central bank's Federal Open Market Committee said the labour market needed to improve before it raised the federal funds rate. In ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... shares were up 6.5 cents at $6.085 after the building products maker announced a share buyback, worth around $236 million. Bank stocks were mixed, with the Commonwealth Bank 20 cents lower at $93.21 and National Australia Bank eight cents weaker at $38.34. ...

AMP appoints BT head of corporate super

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
AMP has appointed a director of corporate superannuation from BT Financial Group to replace Libby Roy, who departed last May. Vicki Doyle was most recently BT Financial Group head of retail and corporate superannuation. At AMP, she will report to AMP ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... or July or August or September this year or January 2016. It doesn't matter. What matters is it will be the first central bank to do so. That's all that matters. We're currently looking at what this divergent US central bank policy vs. "others" is doing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
The share market is stronger due to gains on Wall Street and signs of another Reserve Bank rate cut. The market opened higher after a strong session on Wall Street, sparked by a fall in the US dollar ahead of the US central bank's policy meeting, and ...

Koda Capital nabs more JBWere execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
Newly-established private wealth management firm Koda Capital has appointed two partners from National Australia Bank-owned (NAB) JBWere. Koda Capital was established late last year by former MLC chief executive Steve Tucker and former JBWere chief ...

NAB too big to change culture overnight: Thorburn

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) chief executive Andrew Thorburn has admitted that cultural change in such large organisation "probably takes five, 10 years," in light of the regulator's concerns about its financial planning arm. Thorburn noted that NAB ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... sign cutbacks in manufacturing will hold back economic growth this quarter. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its March board meeting. The ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey is due ...